Hahha thanks for reading my little piece out. It's a good job Turtle has a good sense of humour. I am truly scared of what the come back will be though.😂
If I remember right back in the nineties we used to soak trout pellet in warm water to make a paste with it and then mould big lumps of it around the hook….always wondered if that would still work now
The guy with the gas stove not sealing bought back horrible memories for me. It was Easter Sunday 1992 (remember it exactly as was my mates 18th birthday) & we were at Wicksteed Park with his then girlfriend. We had one of her dad’s camping Gaz single burner stoves that had the piercable canisters. In the middle of the main car park which was busy due to the weather we had (was a hot day for mid-April), the canister that was on the stove originally ran out so I had to change it as neither my mate or his girlfriend had a clue. The other stove we had was one of the screw on canister jobs & was cooking up some sausages as we had decided beforehand that we were not paying the prices for food at Wicksteed Park! I had changed the canister & placed it in the spot near to the already running other stove & the next thing I know was that I was engulfed in a ball of flame (for literally a split second) & that the Camping Gaz stove had launched 50 metres or so straight up in the air in the middle of the packed cars & families that were relaxing by their vehicles! It came down a few metres away from where we had been sat in-between the rows of cars & then started spinning on the grass! Other people nearby quickly threw whatever drinks they had on them along with a couple of picnic blankets to extinguish the Camping Gaz stove that tried to replicate a SpaceX launch! It felt like ages, but as more like 30 seconds or so I realised that the flash of flame had done more damage than I had thought as my face felt like it was still on fire (it wasn’t) & as I was wearing a baseball cap & sunglasses, I realised that I could smell burnt hair. I was rushed up to the medical cabin which was about 150 metres away from memory where the first aider there filled a sink with cold water & commenced to carry out what felt like they were trying to drown me by forcing me face down into a sink of cold water. After what must have been 30 mins, I was being guided into the back of an ambulance with my face covered in a wet towel (I now know what it feels like to be waterboarded!). To cut a long story short, I was taken to Kettering General Hospital, where I was subjected to the same thing again with the bowl of cold water & my face being held into it for as long as I could take before being allowed to replenish breath for 20 seconds before being held again face down in the bowl. I had not realised at the time that my fore arms had been severely burnt as well as the pain from the facial burns was more than the arms & my arms were covered in a cream (flamazine from memory) and placed in plastic bags that resembled used condoms combined with the cream! Because I had been wearing the cap & sunglasses, I had a stripe across my eyes where the flames had not touched and the hair that was not in the cap was singed which had turned my longish hair to a straggly mess of various lengths. After a few hours at the hospital, they discharged me with a prescription of Diamzepam so I could get some sleep even though was in agony, along with some Dihydrocodiene for the pain (not that they did much tbh) & several large tubes of the Flamazine cream and what were supposed to be non-stick gauze (yeah right!). I had not looked in a mirror since the event and we stopped at the Burger King located at Thrapston Services on our way home, but neither my mate or his girlfriend had told me the extent of my appearance! I sat down at a table & wondered why everyone else in there had put their food down and were staring at me. My mate & his girlfriend returned to the table with the food (that I couldn’t eat because I could not open my mouth!) & both looked at me & said we couldn’t stay there & to leave. When I got back to the car, I took a look in the vanity mirror on the eye shade & realised why everyone was staring & stopped eating! I had blisters all over my face that were growing as I was looking in the mirror & skin was starting to dry out and peel. When I got home, I removed the plastic bags as advised to rinse & reapply the Flamazine cream to find that I had numerous large blisters on my arm that resembled 3-4” long & 1” wide “white slugs”! the following morning after a broken sleep, my face resembled Freddy Krueger! A mate that lived down the road did not know what had happened & called round, & his first reaction was “who done that to you? I will kill them!!!” As he had thought I had been beaten up & burnt! For the next 3-4 weeks I could only consume liquids through a straw because I could not open my mouth. I could just fit a cigarette into the remaining hole in my lips. I had to write down most things because nobody could understand what I was saying. Thankfully there was no permanent scarring apart from the hair on my arms never regrew again & 32 years later, I only have very short hair on my forearms.Same with my face & have a small bald patch under my chin where hair does not grow properly (I can hide it with a beard so got an excuse not to shave!). I know it’s not a fishing related story but it is as vivid in my mind now as it was when it happened because how traumatic it was. I still refuse to use Camping Gaz stoves to this day & we later found out from the girls father that he had needed to change the sealing washers on the stove & had not got round to doing it before she put it in the car to take. Whenever I use a stove now, I always check the sealing washers & if any thought that they might be worn or missing, I will not use it! It is just not worth it & something that people tend to overlook. If it had been Bankside & in a bivvy, it could easily be fatal if a seal has perished or split, but very very few people check them every time. I would not wish even my worst enemy to go through the pain I experienced that day & for several weeks afterwards as the skin tried to repair itself. Any small movement of the skin on my face or arms was excruciating and if the extremely dehydrated skin cracked, it would cause even more pain. That was all within less than a second of exposure to the flames, so God knows how people feel if their clothes are literally on fire or melted to their skin. Fire may be fun to some, but PLEASE take care when using camping stoves or BBQ’s & don’t take any risks if you think that something is not right. If you have read this far, thank you for taking the time to do so, & if not, FIRE HURTS!!!!!
Great pod again. I am older than Damo (imagine that !) 70's 80's bait was so much better than now, was when milk isolates were hundred times better quality than available today, to have the 'hair' in 1973 !.... 80's pva bags....
PVA bags were about right back to the seventies. I remmeber Rod Hutchinson writing abiut them, but you had to buy sheets and stick it together knto bags yourself....
I would take back the knowledge I have learned for 40 years carp fishing there are too many single moments and innovations to pick one the hair rig was the turning point I think
Looks like the "other" Korda podcast has finished-when it was started back up again after Simon left, we were told they'd be every two weeks, lucky to get one every 2 months now.
Question: Why is tackle design going backwards? Every sport on the planet is using lightweight materials except carp fishing. For example, a bedchair used to be about 8kg, today they’re 12kg. A bivvy used to be 6kg, today they’re 14kg.
@ That’s part of my point. They’re using cheaper materials which are heavier. Therefore the prices shouldn’t be going up. If they were using better materials then weight should have dropped significantly. It has in all other sports.
Hahha thanks for reading my little piece out. It's a good job Turtle has a good sense of humour. I am truly scared of what the come back will be though.😂
damo personality comes through loads on these new podcasts 👌 think he can get a word in now Danny isn’t about 🤣
brilliant addition makes me laugh on every episode 😄
Fucked it with Adam reed now on the podcast tho
If I remember right back in the nineties we used to soak trout pellet in warm water to make a paste with it and then mould big lumps of it around the hook….always wondered if that would still work now
Soooooo good! TY!
Linford lakes where my love of carp fishing came from grew up in newport pagnell
Love the podcasts lads
The guy with the gas stove not sealing bought back horrible memories for me. It was Easter Sunday 1992 (remember it exactly as was my mates 18th birthday) & we were at Wicksteed Park with his then girlfriend. We had one of her dad’s camping Gaz single burner stoves that had the piercable canisters. In the middle of the main car park which was busy due to the weather we had (was a hot day for mid-April), the canister that was on the stove originally ran out so I had to change it as neither my mate or his girlfriend had a clue. The other stove we had was one of the screw on canister jobs & was cooking up some sausages as we had decided beforehand that we were not paying the prices for food at Wicksteed Park! I had changed the canister & placed it in the spot near to the already running other stove & the next thing I know was that I was engulfed in a ball of flame (for literally a split second) & that the Camping Gaz stove had launched 50 metres or so straight up in the air in the middle of the packed cars & families that were relaxing by their vehicles! It came down a few metres away from where we had been sat in-between the rows of cars & then started spinning on the grass! Other people nearby quickly threw whatever drinks they had on them along with a couple of picnic blankets to extinguish the Camping Gaz stove that tried to replicate a SpaceX launch! It felt like ages, but as more like 30 seconds or so I realised that the flash of flame had done more damage than I had thought as my face felt like it was still on fire (it wasn’t) & as I was wearing a baseball cap & sunglasses, I realised that I could smell burnt hair. I was rushed up to the medical cabin which was about 150 metres away from memory where the first aider there filled a sink with cold water & commenced to carry out what felt like they were trying to drown me by forcing me face down into a sink of cold water. After what must have been 30 mins, I was being guided into the back of an ambulance with my face covered in a wet towel (I now know what it feels like to be waterboarded!). To cut a long story short, I was taken to Kettering General Hospital, where I was subjected to the same thing again with the bowl of cold water & my face being held into it for as long as I could take before being allowed to replenish breath for 20 seconds before being held again face down in the bowl. I had not realised at the time that my fore arms had been severely burnt as well as the pain from the facial burns was more than the arms & my arms were covered in a cream (flamazine from memory) and placed in plastic bags that resembled used condoms combined with the cream! Because I had been wearing the cap & sunglasses, I had a stripe across my eyes where the flames had not touched and the hair that was not in the cap was singed which had turned my longish hair to a straggly mess of various lengths. After a few hours at the hospital, they discharged me with a prescription of Diamzepam so I could get some sleep even though was in agony, along with some Dihydrocodiene for the pain (not that they did much tbh) & several large tubes of the Flamazine cream and what were supposed to be non-stick gauze (yeah right!). I had not looked in a mirror since the event and we stopped at the Burger King located at Thrapston Services on our way home, but neither my mate or his girlfriend had told me the extent of my appearance! I sat down at a table & wondered why everyone else in there had put their food down and were staring at me. My mate & his girlfriend returned to the table with the food (that I couldn’t eat because I could not open my mouth!) & both looked at me & said we couldn’t stay there & to leave. When I got back to the car, I took a look in the vanity mirror on the eye shade & realised why everyone was staring & stopped eating! I had blisters all over my face that were growing as I was looking in the mirror & skin was starting to dry out and peel. When I got home, I removed the plastic bags as advised to rinse & reapply the Flamazine cream to find that I had numerous large blisters on my arm that resembled 3-4” long & 1” wide “white slugs”! the following morning after a broken sleep, my face resembled Freddy Krueger! A mate that lived down the road did not know what had happened & called round, & his first reaction was “who done that to you? I will kill them!!!” As he had thought I had been beaten up & burnt! For the next 3-4 weeks I could only consume liquids through a straw because I could not open my mouth. I could just fit a cigarette into the remaining hole in my lips. I had to write down most things because nobody could understand what I was saying. Thankfully there was no permanent scarring apart from the hair on my arms never regrew again & 32 years later, I only have very short hair on my forearms.Same with my face & have a small bald patch under my chin where hair does not grow properly (I can hide it with a beard so got an excuse not to shave!). I know it’s not a fishing related story but it is as vivid in my mind now as it was when it happened because how traumatic it was. I still refuse to use Camping Gaz stoves to this day & we later found out from the girls father that he had needed to change the sealing washers on the stove & had not got round to doing it before she put it in the car to take. Whenever I use a stove now, I always check the sealing washers & if any thought that they might be worn or missing, I will not use it! It is just not worth it & something that people tend to overlook. If it had been Bankside & in a bivvy, it could easily be fatal if a seal has perished or split, but very very few people check them every time. I would not wish even my worst enemy to go through the pain I experienced that day & for several weeks afterwards as the skin tried to repair itself. Any small movement of the skin on my face or arms was excruciating and if the extremely dehydrated skin cracked, it would cause even more pain. That was all within less than a second of exposure to the flames, so God knows how people feel if their clothes are literally on fire or melted to their skin. Fire may be fun to some, but PLEASE take care when using camping stoves or BBQ’s & don’t take any risks if you think that something is not right.
If you have read this far, thank you for taking the time to do so, & if not, FIRE HURTS!!!!!
Shame my story was to long,, I would have won🤣🤣 But great to hear from others!! 💯👌🏻
Another awesome podcast lads the lion story was awesome 😂😂
Loved Gardner PVA for stringer's thick shiny brilliant for tying knots so your bait stayed separated and rich worth also done flavoured PVA bags
Great pod again. I am older than Damo (imagine that !) 70's 80's bait was so much better than now, was when milk isolates were hundred times better quality than available today, to have the 'hair' in 1973 !.... 80's pva bags....
Happy new year Boys ❤
For me if we go back to the seventies it would be having the hair rig pre eighties
The boilies in the 1980's were better than today. We made our own high protein baits
I take it my storey couldn’t been said on TH-cam lol. Great story
Well done to the winner( Lucky sod) of the rods
PVA bags were about right back to the seventies. I remmeber Rod Hutchinson writing abiut them, but you had to buy sheets and stick it together knto bags yourself....
There was chod rigs way back, we called them Silt Beaters.
Where all the fish been put from cassiens ?
I would take back Cell boilies and Cell smart liquid 💯
Another great podcast fellas.. thanks for including my question!! What do I do to claim the clothing bundle please? Cheers lads
I would take back the knowledge I have learned for 40 years carp fishing there are too many single moments and innovations to pick one the hair rig was the turning point I think
Looks like the "other" Korda podcast has finished-when it was started back up again after Simon left, we were told they'd be every two weeks, lucky to get one every 2 months now.
Yea I think big Rich is flat out on Cyp. I do like these chats. But the long format ones are lush
😂😂 niel should win the rods
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Poor old turtle 😂
He loves it the deviant🤣
Rambo knife
Question:
Why is tackle design going backwards?
Every sport on the planet is using lightweight materials except carp fishing. For example, a bedchair used to be about 8kg, today they’re 12kg. A bivvy used to be 6kg, today they’re 14kg.
Probably cost buddy bivvys are expensive ad they are with all new materia comes with a cost instead of hundreds of pounds they cost thousands
@ That’s part of my point. They’re using cheaper materials which are heavier. Therefore the prices shouldn’t be going up. If they were using better materials then weight should have dropped significantly. It has in all other sports.
Because people want bigger and more comfy kit. Bed mattresses have got thicker and wider, more legs etc. bivvies are bigger too ...
@@kevinwinter7050 Good point. You can have bigger and lighter though.
@@ApexCypher_@ridgemonkey fancy making a carbon fibre bed. 😂
#makerfakers